I suspect you may have some interference on your current channel in which you are getting such slow transfer rate. Its also best to use a channel that is not used/little used by your neighbors.

Another tip to try is to re-orient your wireless adapters for better signal strength. It shows on the Network menu where you would also make a Tivo connection from. It usually takes about 10-30 seconds for the strength to update itself.

You change the channel on the router, just use your browser and put the router IP into the address bar, usually its 192.168.1.1. Have you ever changed the wireless settings before, or used the wireless security like WEP, WPA?

Incidentally, when it does transfer (last time at .57 Mb/s) it seems to such up all of the internet capacity to the extent that the PC that I have connected wirelessly to control the router looses the Internet connection.

The iPhone loses connection for a few seconds during the change of channel and my iPad take a couple on minutes to recover.

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Learn how to access their setup pages via a web browser and how to change the IP address they present to the rest of the Local Area Network (which will be a different IP address from the one assigned to the Wide Area Network side by your cable or DSL modem.

For the sake of discussion let's say that the default IP LAN address for both routers is 192.168.1.1

You can use that number and the next 253 for devices on that LAN segment, so having more than one device with the same number is not only unwise, but also unneccessary.

Change the IP address of the old router to 192.168.1.2

Connect a short Ethernet cable from one of it's RJ-45 jacks (probably a group of 4) to one of them on the new router.

This puts the old router "downstream" of the new one, so the TiVos can talk to each other via the old one just like before, without tying up the new one, and go "upstream" through it to the new one (set it for N wireless only and they won't know the wireless part of the new one is there and it won't know the G wireless part of the old router and the TiVos is there) when they need the internet for downloading guide data.

I like the idea, unfortunately I gave the d-link to my sister a while ago.

Tony

Then I re-refer you to this line:

"It used to work fine on my old D-Link wireless G router, bot not now."

as an indication of where the problem most likely lies, as it is the part of the equation which has changed.

You'll need to break out the owner's manual, and learn something about how to configure some of the basic settings, if for no other reason than to understand what they currently are.

I'll start you off with this.

Giving both TiVos and anything else on the LAN that doesn't travel outside the house a fixed IP address instead of letting it get one via DHCP means one thing fewer (negotiation between the router and the device over what that address will be) to go wrong.

Might help, can't hurt.

Shrinking the pool of addresses the router uses for DHCP down to only as many as are likely to be needed, plus a couple of extra, probably wouldn't hurt either.

Whatever the SSID the wireless part uses is, it doesn't need to be broadcast, you can tell it to anything that needs it. Your neighbor across the street's computer doesn't need to know it, or be able to detect it.

Anything close enough to the router to use a wired connection probably should.

although we need to look at the sticker on the bottom and get the version number and the FCC ID number to be sure we're looking at the right manual for the one you have, which the above may or may not be.

Just throwing this out, but if you're talking speed, performance and transfers, Wireless G routers are not nearly as fast and bulletproof in resolving this as much as MoCA and Powerline ethernet solutions would be.

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